Notes for HD 102117

update: 31 March 2005

The planet(s):

• Detection method: Radial Velocity
• Basic data:

  Name:	HD 102117 b
  M.sini:	0.14 ± 0.03 MJ
  Semi-major axis:	0.149 ± 0.01 AU
  Orbital period:	20.67 ± 0.04 d.
  Eccentricity:	0.0 ± 0.07
  Omega (deg):	162.8 ± 3.0
  T_peri (JD-2450000):	3100.1 ± 0.1
  Inclination:	-

• Remarks:
  
• References:
  1. LOVIS C., MAYOR M., PEPE F., QUELOZ D., SANTOS N., SOSNOWSKA D., UDRY S., BENZ W., BERTAUX J.-L., BOUCHY F., MORDASINI C. & SIVAN J.-P., 2005
     The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. III. Three Saturn-mass planets around HD 93083, HD 101930 and HD 102117.
     Astron. & Astrophys., accepted
     preprint
  2. TINNEY C., BUTLER P. MARCY G., JONES H., PENNY A., McCARTHY C., CARTER B. & FISCHER D.,. 2004
     Three low-mass planets from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search
     ApJ, 623, 1171
     paper
• Other Web pages:
  1. Anglo-Australian Planet Search data
  2. California & Carnegie Planet Search Team Data
  3. Geneva Observatory Data

The star:

• Distance: 42 pc
• Spectral type: G6V
• Apparent magnitude: V = 7.47
• Metallicity: [Fe/H] = 0.18 ± 0.05
• Mass (M_sun): M = 0.95 ± 0.05
• Coordinates (2000):     RA = 11 44 50.4616       DEC = -58 42 13.354
• More data:
  • Basic Data (from simbad )
  • Most recent refs. (from ADS; enter ` HD 102117 ' in the `objects' field)